Banned alfalfa already planted throughout the Bay region

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Now I wonder *why* this banned alfalfa got planted in 22 counties by over 70 farmers? Do you think Monsanto is gonna be coming out and saying oh, gosh darn it! how on earth did that happen? Of course, you can't unscramble the egg, so they'll be looking for and I imagine finding a jurist that is more amenable to say, the Monsanto school of business. Perhaps a Judge that has a couple of kids that have their hopes set on out o state colleges? Or maybe one that needs a divorce so that retirement will make all those years of the dutiful spouse role worthwhile.
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http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1187968606293040.xml&coll=4">original-baycitytimes

Banned alfalfa already planted throughout the Bay region

Court stopped further sales, planting of genetically modified crop
Friday, August 24, 2007
By JEFF KART
TIMES WRITER

A genetically engineered strain of Roundup Ready alfalfa was recently banned in the U.S. over environmental concerns, but it's already been planted in Bay County, across Michigan and in other parts of the country.

The Center for Food Safety, a national nonprofit consumer and environmental protection group in Washington, D.C., sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court over the feed crop, developed by the Monsanto Co.

The center and some farmers argue that the strain of alfalfa has potentially dangerous effects on human health, animal health and contamination of conventional alfalfa plants through pollination by bees. Roundup Ready alfalfa is engineered to be resistant to the popular herbicide.

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complete article http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1187968606293040.xml&coll=4">here

[depakid]

1. Monsanto is the poster child for a "corporate death penalty"

As in- revoke their charter and sell off all their assets to more responsible parties.

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2. Update

According to an article in the Detroit Free Press the Alfalfa was planted last year and is in 43 counties. So supposedly it was planted before the ban went into effect but certainly while the matter was in court and under contention. I'm still trying to find out if there was an injunction in place or not. For some reason the DFP article which is dated Sunday didn't show up in google searches until today.